June 20, 2013

Post: ZFS on Linux and MySQL

drops to 33% after the first snapshot so keeping a large number of snapshots running is…snapshot while holding a “flush tables with read lock” and the…is related to better raid controller write cache use.  Even the fairly slow…, ZFS on Linux is a very interesting solution for MySQL backup servers. …

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 'release candidate' for MySQL available for download

… thread is now …TABLE IMPORT TABLESPACE on MySQL and Percona Server 5.6 as described in Exporting and Importing Tables guide. Bugs Fixed: Percona XtraBackup would crash when preparing the 5.6 backup with partitioned tables. Bug fixed #1169169. Tables that were dropped… of tables and slow IO…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL available for download

… by log copying thread is now configurable by innobackupex …TABLE IMPORT TABLESPACE on MySQL and Percona Server 5.6 as described in Exporting and Importing Tables…with partitioned tables. Bug fixed #1169169. Tables that were dropped between… there are thousands of tables and slow IO then XtraBackup can…

Post: DROP TABLE and stalls: Lazy Drop Table in Percona Server and the new fixes in MySQL

… to 0. Then for analysis purposes the queries in the slow log were grouped by their timestamp, giving us a QPS… of MySQL used for benchmarking the new DROP TABLE implementation is MySQL 5.5.24, and the version of Percona Server used for benchmarking Lazy Drop Table is Percona Server 5.5.24 (innodb_lazy_drop_table

Post: Slow DROP TABLE

… LOCK_open is locked, no query can be executed because they are stopped from accessing any table. Here is when the slow file removal… removals much more efficiently: EXT3 mysql> drop table large_table; Query OK, 0 rows affected (7.44 sec) XFS mysql> drop table large_table; Query OK, 0 rows…

Post: Ultimate MySQL variable and status reference list

MySQL manual, especially the option and variable reference tabledrop_eventblogpercona.commanual Com_drop_functionblogpercona.commanual Com_drop_indexblogpercona.commanual Com_drop_procedureblogpercona.commanual Com_drop_serverblogpercona.commanual Com_drop_tableblogpercona.commanual Com_drop

Post: ALTER TABLE: Creating Index by Sort and Buffer Pool Size

…used 10mil row table which would look as following in terms of data and index size: mysql> show table status like… which 1.4GB is the Index. First Lets look at results of Adding and Dropping column for 128M … become very slow when index does not fit to memory any more. Creating Index by sort is great …

Post: MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6 default variable values differences

…INSTANCES | 1 | 8 | | QUERY_CACHE_SIZE | 0 | 1048576 | | SLOW_QUERY_LOG_FILE | /mnt/data/sandboxes/msb_…in MySQL 5.6 innodb_file_per_table is now ON by default. This is very big change and is good …large number of tables or if you do many create/drop of innodb tables. optimizer_switch is the catch all…

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

is fine, and the client has asked me to figure out why the website is slowtables, I’ll paste in mysql> show global variables like ‘%table_size%’; +———————+———–+ | Variable_name | Value | +———————+———–+ | max_heap_table_size | 268435456 | | tmp_table